A person's clockwise big five pilgrimage to Taiwan

The epidemic impact, half a year no race to run, just the annual vacation did not rest, decided to go to the Wutai Mountain clockwise towards the platform. The next cross-country partners can not go, a person bought a ticket, studied the route, ready to follow the big five Chao Tai cross-country race 70 kilometers of the track of their own Chao Tai.

The big five cross-country race is to start and end at the west gate, I think it is more convenient to start at Hongmen Rock, and the most difficult section is between the east and south of the platform, it is more reasonable to arrange in the first day. So I carefully prepared the road book and studied the track.

The plan never changes fast, a few days before the departure of Biao let me return the ticket, he and his friend Dongzi driving to the Wutai Mountain, you can drive me there, but also plan to accompany me to run. How much to run is not certain, not run at any time to withdraw. So, early in the morning of the 5th, a group of three people set off straight to the town of Taihuai.

With Biao accompanied by running, I heart a lot easier. The first time to go to the Wutai Mountain, never run the route, especially clockwise towards the Taitung Tai to protect the silver ditch section of the hiking less people, some routes are not very obvious, the Internet also did not find this road specific information, afraid of losing, afraid of injuries, afraid of encountering the North China pit vipers, afraid to meet the bad guys. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm sure I'll be able to do it.

3:30 p.m. arrived at the town of Taihuai, booked a room, ate knife-shaved noodles, drank the Wutai Mountain. The first time I saw this, I had to go back to the city, and I had to go back to the city, and I had to go back to the city, and I had to go back to the city, and I had to go back to the city.

It seems that you still have to face the stage, it is both here and there. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money to pay for the services you need. Backdoor out of the temple, ran a short section of the mountain road, in the small bridge, met a dog. Both of us immediately stopped to look at, I nimbly took off the straw hat I just bought, blocked in front of the calf. The air stood still for a moment, and then it walked slowly towards me, and I didn't move to see it pass me, and then I just saw it wagging its ass and trotting away.

In the evening, I contacted Qinhuangdao's cross-country director, Feicheng, who had just completed 70 kilometers of Dawu Chaotai on the 5th with Guiyingou as the start and finish point, and said that he could send me to Hongmenyan early in the morning on the 6th, and that two of his friends from Guangzhou in his group of 5 just happened to be hanging out in Dongtai that night, so that I could complete the section of the route from Dongtai to Guiyingou in company with them. So, I got up at 4:10, dressed, washed and ate instant noodles, the big bag please hotel to keep, 5:00 with the non-sincere rendezvous to Hongmen Rock.

Day 1: Hongmenyan to Dananzhuang, 48.7 kilometers

5:30 arrived at Hongmenyan, non-conscientious to me two small partners of the phone, they set off at 6:00, I went to Dongtai to contact can. The wind is really strong at Hongmen Rock early in the morning, and I feel that my heart rate is a little fast, so keep in mind that we remind you that high altitude to avoid high reflexes, slow down and take your time. Just arrived at the top of Dongtai just sunrise, take photos to commemorate.

After watching the sunrise, I contacted my partner in Guangzhou, and the plan changed again. The two of them decided to go down directly to the east platform, and not to go to the east platform to protect the silver ditch. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm sure I'll be able to do it on my own! I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm going to be able to do it myself," he said!

Down the east platform track is a bit wrong, the road is to find a, always and track some distance. In the hillside of the grass back and forth a few times, and then no other way, only to run while confirming the phone track. I was prompted to deviate from the track, but there was no way out even if I circled left, right and left, so let's continue. This section of the ridge is descending, running up against the sunrise, really quite comfortable.

After the ridge road is the pine forest side of the trail, down a slope and began to climb, far from seeing the top of the mountain there are a few people, grabbed the accelerator to chase, but when I went to the top of the mountain this team did not know to turn to the back of which mountain to go. A lot of small roads, from time to time to stop and confirm the track, finally in the second hill to catch up. This group of five people from Beijing, the front and back of the team is very wide, ready to arrive in Nantai that day. I left a girl's phone number, if you lose a good ask for directions.

I'm a little lighter, a little faster, and soon overtook them, but the downhill speed is a little fast and suddenly broke his foot. This came too suddenly, running cross-country for the fourth year, never broken feet ah. I've never broken my foot before. I've come all the way to Shanxi, and I've only just started to declare that I'm finished. Throwing the cane on the ground to sit for a while, stand up and try, walking will hurt.

Already on the mountain, would rather go forward than backward. It's just that the two men at the head of the Beijing team came over, and I tried to walk with them, and it was okay. The first thing I want to do is to get the best out of the car, and then I'm going to go back to the car.

At first, the road was obvious, and as I walked, I felt that my ankle was fine, and I should have finished the race according to the track, so I hesitated and walked back, and then I broke my ankle again on the way back, and decided to take a shortcut, and then I couldn't find the head of the Beijing team this time, and the tail of the team was too slow, and I was too far away, so I completely lost contact with them.

There are no signposts on the trail, so it's hard to find your way around. There are a lot of roads, do not know where it leads to, a lot of trails are hidden, walk a few meters to disappear. Shortcut direction is very clear, but there is no road is difficult to move, I try to go to the ridge, but finally the ridge is full of weeds and rocks, worried about encountering the sunshine of the North China vipers, decided to go back. But for a few seconds, I realized I couldn't even find my way back and finally panicked a bit.

I called the Beijing girl and she said that the shortcut was only a short section and that I should stick to the ridge. But I have been on the ridge, to return to the track should be downhill. Put down the phone, I fixed directly run track inserted past, there are mountains over the mountains, there is water wading water, must return to the correct track. So, the woods all the way down the mountain, finally in the big five Chao Tai track 42 kilometers back to the track, but also smoothly down the mountain.

Downhill is a concrete road along the river, saw a few cars, a few people, and a great dog. The dog suddenly came out and barked, scaring me so much that I didn't even dare to make sure it was on a leash, and slipped away slowly. Luckily it didn't catch up with me. A big brother asked me if I want to take the car, I said no. The next track is very clear, running along the concrete road for 6 kilometers, did not find the Beijing hiking team, guess they are still behind me. This way the river and highway entanglement, the river often over the highway, need to step on the stone across the river.

After rounding Nanlianggou, we started to climb the mountain road. The road climb is quite tiring, the sun is also sunny. But Qingliang Mountain is at least Qingliang Mountain, the mountain pass has a wind, or with the river water shower head cooling. A lot of cows along the way, at first afraid to walk around the cow far away, and then tired, see the cow low head to eat grass, but also dare to walk directly behind the cow's butt. This way no longer feel the ankle pain, thankful that their injury is not serious can continue.

The mountain road slowly rising, quite tired, but the heart is not tired, do not have to hold the phone has been looking at the track. But walking, two steps suddenly reminded me to deviate from the track again. I've been walking on the main road, and I haven't seen any trails since I was four years old, so I can only try to walk on the main road. The result is more and more deviated, and once again return to find the road, in a place like the entrance to the trail to see, low branches, overgrown weeds, not like walking the route, simply continue to walk on the main road. The result, of course, was to stray even farther, and there was nothing to be done but to plunge perpendicularly toward the track again. All the primitive woods ah, my head into a chicken nest. Finally found the trail at the top of the mountain, the key is still a crossroads, I chose a think I can finally reach the silver ditch, the result is not long again prompted me to deviate from the track again. Hey 。。。。

This heartbreaking all the way ah. Finally chose the right road, far from seeing the Jingyin Temple, ran down and found that they are eating fasting, ask me to eat, said not external. I asked if there is water to drink, said outside the supermarket. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm sure I'll be able to do it.

The Jingyin Temple, my heart is solid. Below is the protection of silver ditch, Baiyun Temple, people everywhere, want to lose are not so easy. In the Baiyun Temple near the lunch, tomatoes and eggs knife-shaved noodles, still very difficult to eat, eat some small dishes, and the waiter asked for some refined salt, drink a light salt water.

Out of the Baiyun Temple, the scenic highway to run to the Buddha Mother Cave. The sun is shining brightly under the sun, the highway is empty. Walking far away from a monk, red robe, wheat color skin, really handsome, that is really quite handsome. Walking close, he suddenly also look at me, scared me immediately lowered his head pretending to look at the road, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. In addition to him, I also met quite a few monks, such as reminding me to walk slowly, to pay attention to the heart rate, and cheer me up, all very handsome. I analyzed and summarized, Wutai Mountain monks why so handsome, may be their skin color tanning just right, are my favorite color.

Wutai Mountain also encountered a lot of people who are begging for money, but also like begging. I don't pay much for incense at temples, but I can't help but give it to those who ask for it. In the Buddha's mother cave on the long steps, and met a man who looks fifty or sixty years old, then that moment really sun really tired, really lazy to turn the waist bag to the stomach this side, and then open the small bag of money out of the money, and then turn the waist bag back. So I walked past him. It turned out to be a whimpering climb up the steps for a while, two steps cueing off track. Well, well, well, I followed the same routine as above, pulled out the money, descended the steps resentfully, gave him the money, and then found a grassy path up the right way.

Leaving the Buddha Mother Cave to run to the South Terrace, the two kilometers of climbing on the South Terrace is quite tiring, walking and stopping. The first kilometer took 36 minutes, thud reported startled, and quickly sat on the ground dry cans of Red Bull, which has the strength to at least stay up to the top of the South Platform. The grass is really beautiful, and two hikers chat for a while, took pictures, really want to lie on the grass in the sun, but also want to bring a tent to camp here. But that night we have to rush to Dannanzhuang accommodation, do not dare to delay, worship Bodhisattva, dry half a bottle of Coke, make up enough water, turn head downhill.

? Out of the South Platform is a variety of downhill, there is a passing car on the dusty dirt road, there are wonderful grassy paths, pine forest paths, downhill more and more run more at ease, finally can be reached before 6 o'clock in the Great South Village. My friends who had been thinking about me and confirming my position through the track could also feel relieved. The mountain often has no signal, so my friends took turns to call me, told me in advance of the fork in the road, and also looked at the satellite cloud charts to give me a weather forecast.

? The first time I entered the Dananzhuang, I saw the Xiuyun farmhouse, hung a lot of outdoor team flag, like a base. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get a good deal on a new one, but I'm sure you'll be able to get a good deal on a new one, and I'm sure you'll be able to get a good deal on a new one, and I'm sure you'll be able to get a good deal on a new one. The ankles were a little swollen, and I immediately soaked my feet in cold water for half an hour, then I showered and went to bed, put my legs up on the quilt, and did a little checking in bed for the day.

This day from Hongmenyan to Dongtai, Guiyingou, Baiyun Temple, Buddha Mother Cave, Nantai, Dananzhuang, track from the navigation, goo dong record nearly 49 kilometers, the actual section of the road is close to 40 kilometers, the other are the detours I took and goo dong drifting data.

On the matter of the broken foot I also summarized, it should be the new shoes last wider, lace tie is not tight, and the sole is thicker, downhill shoes landing in the shoes after the palm of the foot in the shoes can still be active, the landing is not stable. Later on, the laces were tightened, and then there was no broken foot.

The night before, I slept on a pillow, and this day and night, when I rolled over, my cervical vertebrae would wake me up with pain.

The next day: Dananzhuang to Hongmenyan, 36.46 kilometers

Early morning, I woke up at 5:30. Tried it out, front thigh muscles hurt and ankle landing hurt a bit. I decided to take my time on this day, and if my ankle doesn't work, I'll go to the bathhouse and hang out. It is said to be the best place to hang a single at the top of the mountain, where you can take a bath and have WiFi. eat at 6:00 or so, and leave at 7:00. The old man at the farmhouse pointed me to the path to Kinkakuji, and kept me on the right path before leaving.

When I went out of the Jinkakuji Temple and looked for the entrance to the path to the Lion's Nest, I encountered the most ferocious dog in the line, which drew out from the corner and barked at me with red eyes. Luckily, it is chained, otherwise there will be a fight.

The Lion's Nest is very large, the entrance to the grass is very beautiful, turn around the Lion's Nest to the Kichijoji grass is also beautiful, white clouds in the grassy slopes floating ah, skimming a Mani pile, will remind me of Hayao Miyazaki's movie images, such as the thousand and one thousand searches. There are also a lot of magpies and squirrels along the way. The magpies don't land on the trees, but on the ground, hopping along the path, almost as if they were showing the way.

Lunch was served on the west side of the mountain, and I was able to get to the west side of the mountain at 11:25 a.m. after a long and hard climb. The result is that the opening time of the west platform is repeatedly postponed. I was wearing a single punch and waiting, the more I waited, the colder I got, I took out my down jacket and put it on. 40 minutes later, the master began to chant and sing, and finally the meal began. Stir-fried vegetables almost all added pepper, the flavor is very good. The main food is rice, steamed buns and noodles. The meal took an hour, worried about not being able to arrive at Hongmen Rock before dark, out of the West Terrace downhill a little fast, the front side of the thigh muscles and pain, so once again broke his foot. West Terrace to Central Terrace is still clear plateau trail. Because most of the top of the Wutai monastery in the groundbreaking, the middle of the platform out and can not find the road, circled around a few times to find. Seeing that the day is still early, did not stop at the bath, straight to the north platform.

Going to the north platform is the windiest and coldest section of this line. Before going to the mountain, especially want to experience the Wutai Mountain microclimate, looking forward to rain and snow, the equipment is also with complete, but wait until the mountain is really afraid of rain. The sky was a bit cloudy, with large clouds in the distance, some of which appeared to be raining. It was a bit cold to wear a single punch, so I took out my disposable raincoat and put it on to block the wind, but the buttons were blown off before I could put it on. There were no rain pants on the lower half of my body, so if I got wet in the rain and the wind blew, I would lose my temperature. Even if you have a down jacket and thermal blanket on your back, it's too risky not to have rain or snow. Fortunately, I was lucky, a few drops of rain, but also counted the experience of the big Wutai microclimate, in the north platform also far also saw the rainbow.

Out of the north platform all the way downhill, that big section of the mountainside path is really too good. Unfortunately, the broken foot place will hurt, the front thigh muscles also hurt, these usually will be happy to run the road, this time most of the move. Rounding the last hill, far away Hongmen Rock is in front of us, a heart finally fell to the ground.

This day track distance 36.46 kilometers, the starting point of Dannanzhuang, through the lion's den, West Terrace, in the Terrace, bath, North Terrace, and finally returned to Hongmen Rock. The clockwise Dawu Chaotai track is 70 kilometers, because I can not find the road is always lost, my Gudong record 86 kilometers. Although it took me two days to complete the route, I am glad to have completed the 70km clockwise route by myself. At least I had the guts to do it, and of course I was quite well prepared, with a backpack + fanny pack, all kinds of supplies, warmth and rain protection, and first aid supplies. I even carried a knife, and learned how to deal with wounds if I encountered a pit viper in the North China Sea.

After 85 kilometers, I felt like I was emptied out, and returned to my place to soak my feet in cold water, drink hot water, and go to sleep.

On the third day, we mainly slept. The original plan was to continue camping on the mountain, but the weather turned cold, and I couldn't find a heavy-duty hiking team, so I had to give up. The first thing I did was to get a new set of pots and pans for my backpack. The pots and pans are flammable and explosive, so I couldn't go through the security check at the station, so I didn't want to waste them, so I went to the market and bought some sliced meat and greens, and decided to make my own pots and pans in the lobby of the hostel.

As a result, several outdoor enthusiasts gathered around the pot and took the initiative to buy food and wine, and even the owner of the hostel brought drinks and even made ice to join in.

My trip to Wutai lacked friends to talk about it, and the result is that life is full of surprises, a very good experience.

The cross-country race is a carnival for a group of people. Although I have participated in the race alone, and almost no companion on the way, there are road signs and supplies along the way, and there are participants before and after, and there is a strong back-up guarantee. This time, it was my own trail run. I thought I would be thinking about something when I was alone in the mountains, but I didn't think too much about it, but I did think of a poem over and over again: "Life is precious, love is more expensive, and if you want to be free, you can throw away both of them".

I'm a lone wolf, hahahahahaha!